Sense8 (Netflix series): Good show, takes AGES to get moving

To be honest, if it weren't for the presence of Korean actress Doona Bae, I would have given up after a couple episodes. I think she is a fantastic actress but of course her presence on screen is a bit limited since she is acting in English. I find it absurd when TV show or films take obviously overseas locations and then have everyone speak English.... poorly.

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Some might view this as a spoiler but it is in the damn trailer so I'm just gonna say it. The entire premise behind the film is that these people are emotionally and physically tied to one another and they are able to share their own abilities that they earned independently because of this connection. It doesn't matter that they are located all over the world, at times they use abilities such as speaking other languages, fighting, or mechanics without even thinking about it... they just know these things all of a sudden and it is as though their bodies are taken over by someone else for a bit.

source*there are many individual and independent story-lines, but the one about a Kenyan bus driver is one of the more interesting ones

Each individual member of the Sense8's involvement is revealed slowly, and the fact that they have this ability is revealed to us slowly (I would say too slowly and this is because of the 10 episodes per season rule that I hate) by a specter from the LOST series, Sayid.

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Sayid is actually called "Jonas" (cue Weezer music) in this series, and he seems to be unaffected by time and space. I am yet to figure out what his deal is but he seems to be a messenger or leader of the Sense8 and he travels around the world being very cryptic about what they need to do next. It seems strange, since he could save a lot of time by just being more direct. Well, i suppose if he was more straight-forward, reaching 10 episodes could be a bit problematic.

If you are very patient, you might enjoy this. I'm kind of on the fence about it because I actually clean my house while it is on because there is probably around 8 minutes of actual story progression in each episode (I made that up but yeah, there is a LOT of downtime) and this normally happens at the very end which leads you to really wanting to watch the next episode despite the fact that you were bored for a vast majority of the one you just watched. I think this might be part of the reason why this show was cancelled after 2 seasons.

I will likely continue to watch this show, but in a very "back burner" sort of way.